Chapter 20: The Nightmare King

Shi Xuan was overjoyed, "I also ask my seniors to give advice."

The man in the light curtain looked like a torch and said: "If I am not bad, the bloodthirsty nightmare in your body should have been contaminated when you were very young, although I can't perceive your true origin, but I can assert that your family has a huge origin." The man suddenly said something that shocked Shi Xuan.

"The seniors laughed, I was born freely in Stone Village on the edge of Jiahe City, and the whole village knows that when my father was an ordinary hunter," Shi Xuan explained.

"I don't know why you were adopted by an Orion, but one thing I know for sure is that the Nightmare King in your body entered your body when you were a year old, and although it was only a faint remnant of his soul, he has grown as you have grown stronger over the years," explained the man in the light curtain.

"Nightmare King's remnant soul, what is this?" Shi Xuan wondered.

"Thinking about 10,000 years ago, countless terrible creatures were born on the continent, each powerful and powerful, some were extremely evil, making waves on the continent and being strangled by the ancestors of the human race, they disappeared in history one after another, but people found that after a period of time, these powerful evil creatures actually appeared again to harm the world, and this nightmare king is one of the extremely difficult demons, in history he appeared more than once, and was eliminated many times, but he planted the seeds of revival in the body of all spirits every time, and his remnant soul continued to grow with the help of the host, and when the host was strong enough, he turned against the guest and became the king of nightmaresThe man wanted to think of the catastrophe on the continent 10,000 years ago.

"So, have any of these nightmares-infested hosts managed to break free from the control of his remnant soul?" Shi Xuan asked nervously.

"Naturally, there are, and there are quite a few, all spirits in the world have nightmares, and he is parasitic in the body of all spirits with this characteristic, as long as the host's spiritual power is strong enough, when the strength is strong, he can rely on his own strength to strangle the parasitic nightmare soul", the man said.

"So with the supernatural powers of my predecessors, can I separate him from my body?"

"It's easier said than done, he is not parasitic in the body, but in your soul, with your weak soul now, a little violent fluctuation is enough to make your soul scatter, it is almost impossible to separate by external forces, you can only continue to strengthen your spiritual strength, rely on your own cultivation and will to suppress him, do not obey his whispers, even in the most dangerous moments, you must keep your heart, do not let his tricks succeed", the man taught.

"So, this demon will always be lurking in my body, and it may appear at any time and even affect my life?"

"It depends on your cultivation and creation, when your strength is strong enough to condense the soul of the entity, it means that your spiritual power is strong enough, then it is the best time for you to strangle the nightmare in your body, you must work hard to find something that can enhance and cultivate spiritual power in order to continuously strengthen the soul, although there are few exercises and spiritual skills for cultivating the soul on the mainland, but it is not nothing, you need to go to find opportunities, although I do not directly cultivate the spiritual skills of the soul, but there is a pure heart mantra that can help you focus on your spiritual power when you are in danger, can expel the distracting thoughts in your heart, calm the restlessness in your heart, this pure heart mantra has no offensive ability, but it has a great defense against many evil curses, and it can also increase your spiritual strength."

Shi Xuan kowtowed in thanks, he carefully wrote down the pure heart mantra that his predecessors read to him, Shi Xuan seriously felt the effect of the pure heart mantra, after some operation, his heart became clear and quiet, and his breath was peaceful, which did produce some effects.

"In the future, you must pay attention to the physical and mental recuperation, remember not to be angry, vain hatred, these negative emotions will contribute to the growth of nightmares, the heart mantra can only cure the symptoms but not the root cause, if you want to completely suppress the nightmare, you have to rely on your own cultivation", the man looked at him.

"Senior, I want to know why you would assert that I am not the son of Orion, is there any reason for this? or is it just speculation", Shi Xuan was a little puzzled.

"You should ask your Orion father for the specific reason for the matter, but I can conclude that the Nightmare King is the pinnacle of the continent, he will not have anything to do with a small Orion, and his choice to parasitize your body means that your original family must be terrifying, otherwise he will not attack you. If you want to know how things turned out, ask your father, he should know something", the man said to him.

"Can you tell me about these demons that you have sealed in the enchantment?" Shi Xuan said, pointing to the huge gate.

"You shouldn't know this at your age, but since you're my trialist, I can tell you some facts," the man remembered the times that had changed 10,000 years ago.

"The cultivation of all things in heaven and earth is inseparable from the aura of various attributes, the energy in heaven and earth is like a pot of mixed soup, all kinds of attributes are available, each energy is different, what kind of element can be absorbed from it, it depends on your affinity, these strange elements are not born for no reason, each element comes from an elemental plane, these elements are born from the elemental plane, it is rumored that these elemental planes contain pure elemental power, and some powerful spirits will be born among them, and after countless years, they will be able to reach the level of the world's pinnacle, and some elemental kings have received the interference of the king of nightmares and have since become degenerate, Their pure hearts became restless, driven by the Nightmare King, they began to break through the shackles of the plane and attack this world in a big way, causing countless horrors to this world, there have been several times in the Fire Spirit Realm behind us The Fire Spirit King has invaded our world from his temple, he has long been corrupted by the Nightmare King's heart, and his desire dominates him to go to our world again and again", the man introduced the historical secrets to Shi Xuan.

"It's the Nightmare King again, it's hard to imagine how many years he's survived," Shi Xuan was a little uneasy.

"Evil is invincible, he has been defeated more than once in history, these elemental spirits are not the first time to invade, they have been driven back to their world by the ancestors of the human race every time, this time it can be regarded as a repetition of history, but it is different from every time in the past, the world aura was abundant ten thousand years ago, and all spirits have given birth to many powerful peak powerhouses, and now the aura of the world is thin, and it is difficult to produce a strong recognition, although the aura has begun to recover in recent years", the man remembered the past.

"In other words, there are other elemental spirits in this world who are involved in the invasion, will they make a comeback this time?"

"There is no need to worry about this, every known elemental plane has a powerful sealing spell seal, and it is guarded by the sages of the human race, and they have left a back hand to deal with."

Shi Xuan's heart was relaxed, there were so many elements in the world, if they all invaded this world at the same time, who would be able to stop them.

"So do the seniors know why this Hongyan Ridge has become so depressed and terrifying now, and what happened here in the past?"

"The culprit of all this is the Fire Spirit King, he entered this world, his powerful elemental power completely turned the Red Rock Ridge within a radius of thousands of miles into this hellish scene, 10,000 years ago here was calcined by his blazing brilliance for thousands of miles, countless creatures turned into flying back, I don't know how many creatures were buried, now the people who live here are all relocated after thousands of years, and the original inhabitants have no survivors", the man recalled the terrible scene when the Flame Tyrant came to the world.

Shi Xuan was shocked.

"The King of Nightmares It represents the extreme greed and desire of this world, since he appears again, then this world will face a great enemy, every time he appears in history, he will stir up the situation in the world, the more turbulent the situation, the more he can take advantage of the situation to grow, in the future, you must always pay attention to his existence", the man instructed Shi Xuan.

"The kid understands, I must find a way to suppress the nightmare in my body and prevent him from causing trouble to the world", Shi Xuan promised.

"I will always keep an eye on you, and if one day you are completely dominated by nightmares, I will take action to obliterate you, and you must always be vigilant", the man solemnly warned.

Shi Xuan continued to ask, "Then what is my next trial goal?"

"With your current strength, you can't complete many tasks, you need to improve your strength as soon as possible, and when your strength is strong, I can sense it, and I will give you a hint when the time comes."

Shi Xuan learned enough information this time, and also revealed a lot of mysteries in his heart, he was going to find a time to ask his father about the year after he went back.

Shi Xuan didn't stop, he said goodbye to his predecessors and teleported out of the small magic circle. In the blink of an eye, the world changed, and he had come to the mountain under the scorching sun, and at this moment his heart was stirring, and he knew so much at once, which also made him feel a huge pressure.

At this moment, he walked in the spectacular mountains, high mountains everywhere, dark red mountains, even after more than 10,000 years, he can still feel the apocalyptic scene of the flame tyrant reigning in the world, thousands of miles of burning mountains and boiling seas, countless living beings died unexpectedly, countless human ancestors came from the mainland to stop the evil deeds of this tyrant, and finally paid a heavy price to finally defeat him, now that ten thousand years have passed, he and his minions may break through the seal again and return again, what kind of horror will this be.

The Nightmare King is the real mastermind behind many tragedies on the mainland, and his presence has affected the situation on the mainland, and if it is not completely defeated, countless tragedies will continue to be staged.

After going through so much, Shi Xuan has seen through a lot, and he has become stronger, although he is still a boy who is less than thirteen years old, but his heart is as strong as steel, he understands who his enemy is at this moment, and he also understands the danger he faces, he will go forward without doing anything else, just to protect everything he loves.

He didn't hate why his father didn't tell him the truth back then, he knew that everyone had their own unspeakable pain, his father had raised him for so many years, he had long treated him as his own child, he also had a happy childhood, and now he just wanted to get more information, he wanted to know everything that happened back then.

His body hides huge secrets, and if he can't understand them all, it will be difficult for him to get rid of his inner demons, and he doesn't want to carry too many secrets.

Shi Xuan walked all the way in the boundless mountains, looking at the turbulent Jiahe River under the cliff, looking down on the entire Jiahe City, and taking in the infinite scenery. The situation in the city is still uneasy now, the bandit force has successfully come here, making many villagers miserable, and the same is true of Stone Village, they have not become better because of the fall of the Wang family, and the arrival of the bandits has inherited the cruelty of the Wang family.

The people in the city are not having a good time, a new round of hegemony is gradually staged, the Cai family and the Lu family are no longer able to endure the arrival of the bandit leader, and the Shen family is secretly supporting the bandit forces to fight against the Lu family and the Cai family, the situation is also more chaotic, many merchants from afar would rather go to the smaller Black Rock City than dare to come to Jiahe City again, and the business in the city is a lot colder.

Shi Xuan walked on the street, looking at the sparse crowd, and he also realized that maybe one day soon, there would be another huge change in Jiahe City, which was just a precursor to the wind and rain.

He rushed all the way back to the academy and didn't dare to stay for a long time.

Seeing Shi Xuan's safe return, Yuan Caiwei's heart was also relieved, she had been worried about his condition before.

Shi Xuan is not a quiet person, as soon as he came back, he was busy practicing and going to Zhong Wei to learn spirit forging, he had promised to help his senior sister reforge a pair of spirit armor and weapons, but now her cultivation has improved a lot, and the previous spirit armor and weapons are of lower rank.

Shi Xuan has never been stingy with materials to help his senior sister forge, many times the spirit weapons forged for her are much better than his own, this time it is the same, after his hands design and forging, a complete set of spirit armor and staff are exquisite, not only powerful but also exquisite, Shi Xuan did spend a lot of thought, he knew that the future situation would be chaotic, and they would have to leave here to break into the world in three years, without a pair of powerful equipment, it was indeed unsafe.

Shi Xuan knew that Yuan Caiwei's melee strength was weak and her speed was not fast, and she was extremely easy to suffer losses in the process of fighting against others, so he specially designed many melee defense hidden weapons for her to save herself, and also specially forged a pair of faster combat boots for her to pursue or save her life.

It took him a month to complete a set of spiritual weapons, but when he saw Yuan Caiwei wearing a heroic look on his body, he didn't feel wasted at all, and he was very happy to see her like it. It was the only thing he could do for her at the moment.

Here, even his childhood partner Shi Yun has been enrolled in school for more than a year, and he has not paid much attention to this brother, Shi Yun can be regarded as a rapid improvement in strength under his supervision, and he has stepped into the eighth order of the Kaiyuan Realm in more than a year, which can be regarded as passable.

Disciples at the high level of the Xuanmai Realm of the Academy can choose to graduate at any time and leave the Academy to go to the mainland to find opportunities, and now Shi Xuan is considering leaving here to go to the distant continent to find his own opportunities.

And Yuan Caiwei enrolled a year before him, and now the strength of the two is close, both of them have reached the seventh order of the Xuanmai Realm, they have already met the graduation requirements of the academy, and they can leave at any time, because the resources of the academy cannot meet their continued cultivation.

At a rest stage in the martial arts arena, Shi Xuan and Yuan Caiwei sat there and talked a lot.

"What kind of road are you going to take in the future?" Yuan Caiwei looked at him calmly.

"I don't know, but I want to leave this isolated city and go to the mainland to experience it before making a decision, I've always wanted to get out of this cage since I was a child," Shi Xuan thought a lot.

"Will you remember me one day in the future?" Yuan Caiwei looked at him with some hopeful eyes.

"Senior Sister, I am the best person I have been when I came to this academy, and I will never forget it in my life, what are your plans for the future?" Shi Xuan looked at her.

"Nowadays, Jiahe City is in turmoil, I don't want to leave for the time being, I can't bear my parents, maybe when the situation improves a little, I will also travel to the mainland," Yuan Caiwei said seriously.

Shi Xuan felt a little sad in his heart, he knew that everyone's experience was different, and he couldn't ask Yuan Caiwei to make the same decision as him.

"I heard some businessmen who come and go to the mainland say that there is a sect called Tianhua Sect on the mainland, which is powerful and recruits disciples, and I want to try my luck there in the future, and it will be difficult to move an inch without the support of a strong sect in the future", Shi Xuan said his dream.

"I've heard of this name, and if I travel to the mainland one day, I'll definitely come to you," Ms. Yuan said.

"You didn't lie to me?"

Yuan Caiwei looked at him seriously.

"I'll always be there waiting for you. ”

"When the time comes, you will meet many young and beautiful girls there, I guess you will have forgotten about me a long time ago", Yuan Caiwei said suddenly.

"Do you know, several times when I encounter danger, when I can't stand it, there will always be a playful and cute figure in my mind, she constantly inspires me, even in the darkest moments, she has always been by my side to encourage me to move forward, that person is you Caiwei", Shi Xuan looked affectionately at the somewhat playful and cute girl in front of him.

Yuan Caiwei's eyes were a little moist when she heard his words, she remembered that the two of them fell into the dark cave and experienced life and death together, it was the boy in front of her who strongly supported the hope of living, and it was he who carried himself all the way back to the academy, and every time she was with him, she would feel very happy. It's a pity that both of them are still too young, their lives have just begun, and there are so many things waiting for them to do. But this most innocent love is deeply engraved in the hearts of the two young people.

For more than two years, they have been accustomed to each other by their side, and now they are going to run away for their own affairs, they are very sad at the moment, how vast the continent is, many mortals are difficult to come to the end of their lives, once the two are separated, they don't know what year the next meeting will be, and they may have already been wrong.

Yuan Caiwei held back her tears strongly, and she was like a little woman leaning on his shoulder to accompany him to watch the poignant sunset......

Shi Xuan will carry out his ideas when he has them, and before leaving here, he plans to return home to visit his parents, and he also hopes that his father can tell him what happened back then.

Shi Xuan came to the city and sold all the spiritual materials he couldn't use in exchange for a lot of gold coins, he knew that his father had been injured several times over the years, and he didn't want him to take too many risks to exchange some gold coins for his parents to support his family.

Returning to the familiar stone village again, the people of the same age in the village were sent to the academy like him, and those with poor qualifications inherited the mantle of their fathers and followed their elders into the mountains to hunt, this is their fate.

Shi Xuan returned to his familiar home, although it was simple, but it had a warm taste, his parents asked for warmth, and the family was also happy, and Shi Xuan had often subsidized the family in the past two years, which was also good. Shi Xuan would exchange some gold coins for some gold coins to support his family every once he passed.

For several days in a row, Shi Xuan had been accompanying the second elder at home without high-intensity cultivation, he knew that this time he was going to travel far away, and he didn't know when he would see him in the future, he cherished the time in front of him very much.

Under the setting sun, Shi Xuan and his father were slaughtering a hunted elk in the garden, preparing it as rations, Shi Xuan rang for a long time and finally told his father his idea of going away.

Dad put down the work in his hand, sat there without saying a word, and said after a while: "Yes, the child has grown up, and one day he will leave his parents' side, just like a bird leaving the nest, Xuan'er can go with confidence, the mainland is the vast sky, there is your destination, as long as you think that there are still people at home who are worried about you", Daddy's heart was full of reluctance, this is Shi Xuan's mother also stood aside in a daze, his eyes were full of tears, after all, his mother was worried.

Shi Xuan was very reluctant in his heart, but he had no choice, he was carrying too many shackles given to him by fate, he couldn't break it here, only the mainland was the stage for him to play.

Shi Chengyi was also full of contradictions at the moment, he knew that Shi Xuan was gone, and he would not be able to come back for a few years, and he also remembered the scene when Xue Longhai was lonely in the mountains, and he knew that it was this time.

Back then, Xue Longhai instructed him that if Shi Xuan had a good cultivation talent, he could tell him the truth at that time, and if he didn't have talent, let him spend his life plainly, and now Shi Xuan showed amazing talent, Shi Chengyi knew that it was time for him to understand his life experience.

Just when Shi Xuan was about to ask, Shi Chengyi stopped his hand, and the two of them sat in the courtyard, Shi Chengyi said: "Child, there are some things that you should know after more than ten years, I am afraid that I will not have a chance to say it in a few years."

Shi Xuan listened carefully.

"Actually, you were not born to me and your mother, you are my adopted child, you were estimated to be about a year old when we adopted you, and I was still hunting in the back mountains until they arrived......"

Father Shi Xuan carefully talked to Shi Xuan about the battle between Xue Longhai and the demon that Dad met in the mountains more than ten years ago, and told Xue Longhai in detail about the process of supporting orphans back then.

Shi Xuan's tears were like rain at the moment, and his mother came over to help him wipe away his tears, "Don't resent us for not telling you for so many years, we just want you to spend your childhood in peace", Shi Xuan's mother comforted.

"I know, thanks to your selfless nurturing for so many years, I am where I am today, otherwise I would have died a long time ago, no matter what, you are my eternal parents", Shi Xuan was teary-eyed, kneeling down to thank his parents for their nurturing, and Shi Chengyi and his wife helped him up.

Shi Xuan also finally understood the source of his nightmare, he was not even a human race on this continent, he recalled his nightmare, and knew that his original race might have long since perished, he was just a survivor.